Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games – Results

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1971 Mediterranean Games taking place between 12 and 17 October in Izmir, Turkey.^[1]

Men's results[]

100 meters[]

Heats – 12 October
Wind:

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Manuel Carballo	Spain	10.5	Q^[2]
5	1	Vincenzo Guerini	Italy	10.6	^[3]
3	2	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	10.7	Q^[3]

Final – 13 October
Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.4
		Tunisia	10.7
		Yugoslavia	10.7
4	Manuel Carballo	Spain	10.8
5		Tunisia	10.8
6	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	10.8
7		Yugoslavia	10.9
8	Omar Chokhmane	Morocco	11.0

200 meters[]

Heats
Wind:

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.1	Q^[3]
1	2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.6	Q^[3]

Final – 16 October
Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.7
		Yugoslavia	21.2
		Yugoslavia	21.4
4	Omar Chokhmane	Morocco	21.4
5	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.5
6		Greece	21.7
7		Turkey	22.2
	Salah Fettouh	Morocco	DNS

400 meters[]

Heats – 13 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Giacomo Puosi	Italy	47.3	Q^[3]^[4]
2	1	Kyriakos Onisiforou	Greece	47.4	Q^[4]
3	1		Morocco	47.5	Q^[4]
4	1		Tunisia	47.5	Q^[4]
5	1	Miro Kocuvan	Yugoslavia	47.6
6	1		Spain	47.6	^[2]
7	1	Gunejill	Algeria	49.8
8	1	?	Lebanon	49.9
1	2	Manuel Gayoso	Spain	47.7	Q^[2]
2	2	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	47.9	Q^[4]
3	2	Sergio Bello	Italy	48.0	Q^[3]
4	2	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	48.1	Q^[4]
5	2		Tunisia	48.1
6	2	Ergenc	Turkey	49.9
7	2	Hamden	Lebanon	50.1

Final – 14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kyriakos Onisiforou	Greece	46.9
	Giacomo Puosi	Italy	47.1
	Luciano Sušanj	Yugoslavia	47.2
4	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	47.3
5	Sergio Bello	Italy	47.4
6	Manuel Gayoso	Spain	47.7
7		Tunisia	47.7
8		Morocco	47.8

800 meters[]

Heats – 15 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1		Greece	1:49.7	Q
2	1	Azzedine Azzouzi	Algeria	1:50.7	Q
3	1	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:51.1	Q
4	1	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:51.1	Q^[2]
5	1	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	1:51.1
1	2	Mansour Guettaya	Tunisia	1:50.9	Q
2	2		Spain	1:51.1	Q^[2]
3	2	Sid Ali Djouadi	Algeria	1:51.3	Q
4	2		Yugoslavia	1:51.4	Q
5	2		Morocco	1:51.4

Final – 16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Mansour Guettaya	Tunisia	1:47.6
	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:48.1
	Azzedine Azzouzi	Algeria	1:48.2
4		Yugoslavia	1:48.4
5		Spain	1:49.0
6		Greece	1:50.0
7	Sid Ali Djouadi	Algeria	1:51.0
8	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:53.7

1500 meters[]

Heats – 12 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jacky Boxberger	France	3:53.6	Q^[5]
2	1	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	3:53.7	Q
3	1		Yugoslavia	3:53.8	Q
4	1		Spain	3:54.1	Q^[2]
5	1		Algeria	3:54.2	Q
1	2	Franco Arese	Italy	4:08.8	Q^[3]

Final – 13 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mansour Guettaya	Tunisia	3:46.5
	Franco Arese	Italy	3:47.6
	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	3:48.8
4		Morocco	3:49.5
5		Tunisia	3:52.2
6		Algeria	3:52.8
7		Yugoslavia	3:53.2
8		Spain	3:55.3
	Jacky Boxberger	France	DNF	^[5]

5000 meters[]

Heats – 12 October^[6]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	14:14.8	Q
2	1	Raymond Zembri	France	14:17.6	Q^[5]
3	1	Jaddour Haddou	Morocco	14:18.4	Q
4	1		Greece	14:19.0	Q
5	1		Spain	14:22.8	Q^[2]
6	1		Algeria	14:45.0	Q
7	1		Turkey	15:04.4
1	2		Turkey	14:49.8	Q
2	2	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	14:57.4	Q
3	2		Tunisia	14:57.6	Q
4	2	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	15:10.8	Q^[3]
5	2	Javier Álvarez	Spain	15:10.8	Q^[2]
6	2		Algeria	15:14.2	Q
7	2	Al Deff	Syria	15:17.0

Final – 14 October^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Javier Álvarez	Spain	13:37.2
	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	13:40.8
	Jaddour Haddou	Morocco	13:44.0
4		Spain	13:57.8
5	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	14:08.6
6	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	14:13.2
7		Greece	14:21.4
8		Tunisia	14:27.0
9		Algeria	??:??.?
10		Turkey	??:??.?
11		Algeria	??:??.?
	Raymond Zembri	France	DNF	^[5]

10,000 meters[]

16 October^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Javier Álvarez	Spain	28:52.2
	Mariano Haro	Spain	28:54.4
	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	28:59.0
4	Abdelkader Zaddem	Tunisia	29:18.4
5	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	30:04.2
6		Greece	30:30.8
7		Algeria	30:33.8
8		Turkey	30:38.0
9	A. Fitos	Turkey	31:41.6
	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	DNF

Marathon[]

17 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Italy	2:23:33
	Hüseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2:24:14
	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2:28:35
4	Agustín Fernández	Spain	2:34:02
5		Greece	2:36:43
6		Italy	2:40:17
7		Syria	2:53:12
	Mariano Haro	Spain	DNF	^[2]

110 meters hurdles[]

Heats – 14 October
Wind:

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.2	Q^[3]
2	1	Marco Acerbi	Italy	14.5	Q^[3]

Final �� 15 October
Wind: +0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Guy Drut	France	13.7
	Sergio Liani	Italy	14.2
		Greece	14.2
4	Nurullah Candan	Turkey	14.8
5		Algeria	15.0
6		Lebanon	15.1
7		Turkey	15.4
	Marco Acerbi	Italy	DNS

400 meters hurdles[]

Heats – 12 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
2	1		Italy	52.0	Q^[3]
1	2		Spain	52.1	Q^[2]
3	1	Manuel Soriano	Spain	52.3	Q^[2]
2	2	Alessandro Scatena	Italy	53.4	Q^[3]

Final – 13 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Stavros Tziortzis	Greece	51.0
	Manuel Soriano	Spain	51.2
		Spain	51.4
4		Italy	51.5
5	Alessandro Scatena	Italy	51.9
6	Georgios Birmbilis	Greece	53.0
7	Hassan Bergaoui	Tunisia	53.0
8		Tunisia	53.3

3000 meters steeplechase[]

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:30.0
		Greece	8:35.4
	Umberto Risi	Italy	8:40.8
4	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	8:47.8
5	Panagiotis Nakopoulos	Greece	8:48.2
6		Spain	8:56.0
7		Spain	8:56.2
8		Turkey	9:19.6
9		Turkey	9:23.8
10	Khalife	Syria	9:26.6

4 × 100 meters relay[]

15 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Ennio Preatoni, Pasqualino Abeti, Vincenzo Guerini, Pietro Mennea	39.7	GR
	Yugoslavia	, , Miro Kocuvan, Luciano Sušanj	40.5
	Morocco	, Omar Ghizlat, ,	41.1	NR
4	Tunisia		41.1
5	Greece		41.1
6	Turkey		41.7

4 × 400 meters relay[]

16 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Sergio Bello, Daniele Giovanardi, Gian Lorenzo Cellerino, Giacomo Puosi	3:07.5	GR
	Yugoslavia	, Miro Kocuvan, Jože Međimurec, Luciano Sušanj	3:08.1	NR
	Morocco	, Omar Ghizlat, Salah Fettouh,	3:08.4	NR
4	Spain	, Manuel Gayoso, , Manuel Soriano	3:08.7
5	Greece		3:12.4
6	Turkey		3:16.5
7	Libya		3:19.1

20 kilometers walk[]

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Pascale Busca	Italy	1:36:55.0
		Spain	1:41:11.2
		Spain	1:47:03.2
4		Turkey	1:50:43.6
		Turkey	DNF
		Greece	DNF
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF

50 kilometers walk[]

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:21:21.8
	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:29:19.4
		Turkey	4:54:06.6
4		Turkey	5:05:02.2
		Greece	DQ

High jump[]

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.85	1.95	2.00	2.05	Result
	Gian Marco Schivo	Italy					2.11
	Ioannis Kousoulas	Greece					2.11
		Greece					2.08
4	Erminio Azzaro	Italy					2.05
5		Turkey					2.00
6	Luis María Garriga	Spain	–	–	xo	xx	2.00
7		Spain	o	o	xo	xxx	2.00
8	Nurullah Candan	Turkey					2.00
9	Chaouach	Syria					1.90

Pole vault[]

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	3.90	4.40	4.50	4.70	4.90	Result
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece						5.20
	Ignacio Sola	Spain	–	–	–	xo	xxx	4.70
		Greece						4.50
4		Tunisia						4.40
5		Turkey						4.40
6		Lebanon						4.40
7		Turkey						3.90

Long jump[]

13 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Jacques Pani	France							7.90
	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia							7.78
	Mariano Pérez	Spain	x	x	7.19	7.40	x	x	7.40	^[2]
4	Hamed Ezzedine Yacoub	Egypt							7.32
5		Turkey							7.15
6		Turkey							7.00
7		Syria							6.63

Triple jump[]

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia							16.18
	Apostolos Kathiniotis	Greece							15.84
		Spain	15.31	15.64	15.68	15.21	15.09	x	15.68	^[2]
4	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	15.05	15.64	x	15.33	15.48	15.49	15.64	^[2]
5	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey							15.53
6		Turkey							14.54
7		Tunisia							14.22
8		Syria							13.84

Shot put[]

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Yusuf Nagui Assad	Egypt							20.19
	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Morocco							18.85
	Yves Brouzet	France							18.69
4	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia							18.38
5	Loukas Louka	Greece							17.62
6		Yugoslavia							17.60
7	Georgios Lemonis	Greece							17.21
8		Spain	16.89	x	16.46	x	x	16.07	16.89	^[2]

Discus throw[]

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
		Italy	57.64	GR
	Yusuf Nagui Assad	Egypt	54.72
		Yugoslavia	54.32
4		Greece	53.00
5		Lebanon	45.48
6		Algeria	44.58
7		Syria	43.42
8		Turkey	43.08

Hammer throw[]

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Georgios Georgiadis	Greece							68.76
	Mario Vecchiato	Italy							67.64
	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia							66.28
4		Yugoslavia							62.98
5		Spain	x	59.20	x	59.44	58.94	57.14	59.44	^[2]
6		Turkey							53.96
7		Syria							38.22

Javelin throw[]

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	78.04	GR
		Turkey	61.34
		Turkey	59.80
4		Syria	57.30
5		Syria	54.24

Decathlon[]

13–14 October^[7]^[8]

The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points
	Greece	11.39	7.09	12.90	1.75	50.8	15.90	39.76	4.00	63.52	4:34.3	7222
	Spain	11.32	6.93	12.27	1.89	50.5	15.20	31.96	3.70	60.14	4:37.5	7072
	Spain	11.07	7.23	13.33	1.83	50.1	16.11	43.26	3.00	40.14	4:30.4	6934
4	Greece	11.12	7.09	11.83	1.86	50.0	15.58	32.04	3.80	53.00	4:55.8	6907
5	Lebanon	11.67	6.37	11.49	1.86	51.7	16.74	36.64	4.35	46.60	4:35.3	6702
6	Tunisia	11.48	6.20	11.23	1.75	51.4	16.57	34.14	3.20	45.40	4:23.4	6316

Women's results[]

100 meters[]

Heats – 12 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.9	Q^[3]
?	?	Michèle Beugnet	France	12.0	Q^[5]
2	1	Laura Nappi	Italy	12.1	Q^[3]

Final – 13 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Cecilia Molinari	Italy	11.9
	Nicole Pani	France	12.0
	Michèle Beugnet	France	12.1
4	Laura Nappi	Italy	12.2
5	Fatima El-Faquir	Morocco	12.8
6		Turkey	13.0
7		Turkey	13.1
8		Syria	13.2

400 meters[]

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Colette Besson	France	53.0
	Donata Govoni	Italy	54.4
		Spain	56.0
4	Malika Hadky	Morocco	56.5
5		Egypt	58.2
6		Turkey	58.8
7		Turkey	1:00.3
8		Syria	1:03.1

800 meters[]

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:02.2
	Donata Govoni	Italy	2:04.9
	Colette Besson	France	2:07.2
4		Spain	2:12.5
5		Egypt	2:14.6
6		Morocco	2:14.6
7		Turkey	2:16.0
8		Turkey	2:19.0

1500 meters[]

15 October^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	4:20.3
	Paola Pigni	Italy	4:22.6
		Yugoslavia	4:23.0
4		Spain	4:23.8	NR
5	Angela Ramello	Italy	4:26.6
6		Turkey	4:32.4
7		Morocco	4:37.0
8		Spain	4:37.6
9		Turkey	4:41.1
10		Syria	5:32.9

100 meters hurdles[]

Heats – 13 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1		Yugoslavia	14.1	Q^[10]
2	1	Odette Ducas	France	15.2	Q^[10]
3	1		Spain	15.6	Q, NR^[2]^[10]
4	1		Syria	16.7	Q^[10]
5	1		Turkey	18.1	^[10]

Final – 14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
		Yugoslavia	14.0
	Ileana Ongar	Italy	14.1
	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	14.5
4	Odette Ducas	France	15.6
5		Morocco	15.6
6		Spain	15.7
7		Syria	16.7
8		Turkey	17.6

4 × 100 meters relay[]

15 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time
	Italy	Maddalena Grassano, Laura Nappi, Ileana Ongar, Cecilia Molinari	45.6
	France	Colette Besson, Michèle Beugnet, Nicole Pani, Odette Ducas	45.6
	Yugoslavia	Đurđa Fočić, , Breda Babošek, Vera Nikolić	48.4
4	Turkey		49.6

High jump[]

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.45	1.50	1.53	1.56	1.59	1.65	Result	Notes
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia							1.77
	Sara Simeoni	Italy							1.74
	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia							1.74
4		Spain	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.59	^[2]
5		Spain	o	xxo	xxo	o	xxx		1.56	^[2]
6		Turkey							1.45

Discus throw[]

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
		Italy	48.90
	Maria Stella Masocco	Italy	47.44
		Greece	46.06
4		Morocco	38.60
5		Turkey	36.14
6		Turkey	34.12
7		Syria	27.50

References[]

^ "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Spanish results
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 483. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Clamoroso a Smirne: Arese battuto da uno sconosciuto militare tunisino" (in Italian). La Stampa. 14 October 1971. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e French results
^ ^a ^b ^c Results
^ Decathlon results (p18)
^ Spanish combined events records (p270)
^ Spanish middle-distance records (p394)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Spanish records chronology

[1] "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2019-04-05.

[ESP-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Spanish results

[ITA-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 483. Retrieved 2020-10-31.

[Stampa1-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Clamoroso a Smirne: Arese battuto da uno sconosciuto militare tunisino" (in Italian). La Stampa. 14 October 1971. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2020.

[FRA-5] French results

[Gammoudi-6] Results

[7] Decathlon results (p18)

[8] Spanish combined events records (p270)

[9] Spanish middle-distance records (p394)

[Chrono-10] Spanish records chronology

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